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(His Master's Voice – B.6347)
Recorded on May 3rd, 1933 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Flip Side To "Maybe I Love You Too Much"
Ray Noble And His Orchestra
Vocals [Uncredited] – Al Bowlly
Written By: Mack Gordon
Composed By: Harry Revel
Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1899 – 17 April 1941) was a South African-British vocalist, crooner, and dance band guitarist who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions and even crossed over to the United States.
His most popular songs include "Midnight, the Stars and You", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "Close Your Eyes", "The Very Thought of You", "Guilty", "Heartaches" and "Love Is the Sweetest Thing". He also recorded the only English version of "Dark Eyes" by Adalgiso Ferraris, as "Black Eyes", with lyrics by Albert Mellor.
(His Master's Voice – B.6347)
Recorded on May 3rd, 1933 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Flip Side To "Maybe I Love You Too Much"
Ray Noble And His Orchestra
Vocals [Uncredited] – Al Bowlly
Written By: Mack Gordon
Composed By: Harry Revel
Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1899 – 17 April 1941) was a South African-British vocalist, crooner, and dance band guitarist who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions and even crossed over to the United States.
His most popular songs include "Midnight, the Stars and You", "Goodnight, Sweetheart", "Close Your Eyes", "The Very Thought of You", "Guilty", "Heartaches" and "Love Is the Sweetest Thing". He also recorded the only English version of "Dark Eyes" by Adalgiso Ferraris, as "Black Eyes", with lyrics by Albert Mellor.




![Duke Ellington - It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) 1932 (Ivie Anderson Vocals)
(Brunswick 6265)
Recorded February 2, 1932
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
Vocals [uncredited] – Ivie Anderson
It Dont Mean a Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing) is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. It is now accepted as a jazz standard, and jazz historian Gunther Schuller characterized it as now legendary and a prophetic piece and a prophetic title. In 2008, Ellingtons 1932 recording of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The music was composed and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at the Lincoln Tavern in Chicago; the lyrics were contributed by Irving Mills. According to Ellington, the songs title was the credo of trumpeter Bubber Miley, who was dying of tuberculosis at the time; Miley died the year the song was released.
The song was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for Brunswick Records on February 2, 1932. Ivie Anderson sang the vocal and trombonist Joe Nanton and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges played the solos. In later performances, trumpeter Ray Nance often sang the vocal.
The song became famous, Ellington wrote, as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time. It contains one of the earliest uses in popular music of the term swing.
Lyrics:
It dont mean a thing
If it aint got that swing
It dont mean a thing
All you got to do is sing
It makes no difference
If its sweet or hot
Just keep that rhythm
Give everything you got
It dont mean a thing
If it aint got that swing
It dont mean a thing
If it aint got that swing Duke Ellington - It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) 1932 (Ivie Anderson Vocals)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wtOajT0_v1s/mqdefault.jpg)





